: Starting my essay with one word (MLA) This is how it starts.... Is it grammatically correct for MLA? "Religion" (I'm sure you've all heard of this before). Religion has.....

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I don't think this is grammatically correct for anything. Is "Religion" the title, and (I'm sure you've all heard of this before). a subtitle? If so, I think it's a weird subtitle, and it's weird to put your subtitle in parentheses.

If this is the body of your essay, then you have the serious problem that "Religion" (I'm sure you've all heard of this before). is not a sentence. I'm sure you've all heard of this before. is, but you can't have your sentence in parentheses unless you put its punctuation there too, and in that case what is "Religion" doing here at all?

Also, if you begin by telling me that I've already heard everything you have to say, I'm not going to keep reading. Why not just begin differently?

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